Beast Skin
Up to date: Summer 2025
A Beast Skin is a magical artifact that grants the wearer to change into a predetermined animal shape.
Originally made to imitate the ability of Werebeasts, generations of intermingling and attunement has made them almost as much of the owners’ bodies as their own skin and blood.
A Beast Skin is a magical artifact that grants the wearer to change into a predetermined animal shape.
Originally made to imitate the ability of Werebeasts, generations of intermingling and attunement has made them almost as much of the owners’ bodies as their own skin and blood.
Mechanics & Inner Workings
The wearer dons the artifact, often in the shape of a simple gown or an armor, and remains in that shape, until the wearer wants the change, whereupon it magically transforms the wearer into the associated animal, until the wearer again wishes for it to become cloth.
Manufacturing process
The process is a wellkept secret and a complex process of smithing, weaving and guiding the magic of Fate though the item, during the construction.
An animal must be present for its soul to be infused into the artifact as it gets ritualistically slaughtered, thus donating its shape to the item.
An animal must be present for its soul to be infused into the artifact as it gets ritualistically slaughtered, thus donating its shape to the item.
History
Inspired by the shapeshifting Fey, called Werebeasts, ancient Vettir were very intrigued by the possibility of learning this ability.
Known for their legendary smithing skills, certain Dark Alfs were presented with the challenge of whether it would even be possible to obtain. Never ones to back out of a challenge, the Dark Alf brethren took the Vettir up on this task, and started testing a great many ways before finally breaking through and creating the first Beast Skins.
This heralded a golden age for the Vettir societies, where the Dark Alf brethren travelled and regaled many Vettir tribes with wondrous Beast Skins of various beasts of both land, sea and sky.
The brethren now long gone and their smithing method largely forgotten by time, these artifacts have become a finite, priceless resource well guarded by their owning tribes.
Known for their legendary smithing skills, certain Dark Alfs were presented with the challenge of whether it would even be possible to obtain. Never ones to back out of a challenge, the Dark Alf brethren took the Vettir up on this task, and started testing a great many ways before finally breaking through and creating the first Beast Skins.
This heralded a golden age for the Vettir societies, where the Dark Alf brethren travelled and regaled many Vettir tribes with wondrous Beast Skins of various beasts of both land, sea and sky.
The brethren now long gone and their smithing method largely forgotten by time, these artifacts have become a finite, priceless resource well guarded by their owning tribes.
Significance
Each Beast Skin is an immensely valuable artifact, guarded by generations of Vettir, they are a part of those tribes’ natures – their self-understanding.
Most Beast Skins are inherited from parent to child, in small tightknit tribes to not surpass the number of Skins available.
Every Skin carries the stories of many generations, and nothing is more important to the Vettir than legends.
Should anyone wear a Skin outside their original tribe, there is no doubt a story of tragedy or mischief behind it.
Most Beast Skins are inherited from parent to child, in small tightknit tribes to not surpass the number of Skins available.
Every Skin carries the stories of many generations, and nothing is more important to the Vettir than legends.
Should anyone wear a Skin outside their original tribe, there is no doubt a story of tragedy or mischief behind it.
Item type
Magical
Used by
Related ethnicities
Rarity
Rare
Raw materials & Components
Unknown/Secret, but each artifact contains the soul of the associated animal.
Tools
Very specialized Dark Alf tools are required as well as the correct environment.
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